5G is the latest cellular communication standard that is currently being deployed. 5G covers a much wider frequency range than previous cellular generations, and most other wireless standards. Hence, hardware for 5G can be extremely diversified. 5G frequency range 1...
In modern digital communications and radar the success of communications and sensing has become extremely sensitive to phase noise as well as amplitude noise. Phase noise is the frequency domain description for jitter, which is a major component of bit-error rate...
There are many cases in RF circuit design where there is a need to increase the power of a signal while avoiding adding any signal degrading characteristics. An example of this is when a mixer needs to be driven at a certain input power beyond what is available from...
This is the second part of a two-part blog series dedicated to providing a brief explanation of the various types of RF amplifiers with highlights of pertinent applications. This section includes more specialty amplifier types that are still widely used throughout the...
A low noise amplifier (LNA) is an essential active RF device in virtually all receiver (RX) front-ends (FE) and throughout the signal chain in many sensitive designs. LNAs are designed to amplify weak RF signals while introducing minimal noise into the signal chain....
A Bidirectional Amplifier, or Bi-directional Amplifier (bda), is an active RF device that is widely used in a variety of telecommunication, radar, and other RF sensing applications. Though conceptually a Bidirectional Amplifier performs a relatively simple operation,...
Power Amplifiers (PAs) are essential components in most RF, microwave, and millimeter-wave sensing, communications, electronic warfare (EW), and directed energy weapons. PAs are used within a signal chain to add significant gain to the signal, typically within the...
